Working from the perspective of the new economic criticism, this study uses close reading and historical contextualization to examine the relationship between interpersonal relationships and economics in the plays of Shakespeare
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Working from the perspective of the new economic criticism, this study uses close reading and historical contextualization to examine the relationship between interpersonal relationships and economics in the plays of Shakespeare
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-199) and index
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "The wind that bloweth all the world besides-desire for gold"; Chapter One The Merchants of Ephesus and How Money Never Really Mattered; Chapter Two Shakespeare's England: The Merry Wives of Windsor's Bourgeois Cash Values; Chapter Three "My purse, my person": Conflating the Economic and the Personal in The Merchant of Venice; Chapter Four The Exchange Economy of Measure for Measure: "You will needs buy and sell men and women like beasts"
Chapter Five Reconciling the Two Timons: Shakespeare's Philanthropist and Middleton's ProdigalConclusion: "What's aught but as 'tis valued?"; Notes; Bibliography; Index